Recognizing Abnormal Heart Sounds Using Deep Learning

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

Rubin, J (Author) Other; Rui Abreu (Author) FEUP; Ganguli, A (Author) Other; Nelaturi, S (Author) Other; Matei, I (Author) Other; Sricharan, K (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data Co-located with the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, August 20, 2017.

Pages: 13-19

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Scopus - 10 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00M-YMP

Abstract (EN): The work presented here applies deep learning to the task of automated cardiac auscultation, i.e. recognizing abnormalities in heart sounds. We describe an automated heart sound classification algorithm that combines the use of time-frequency heat map representations with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). Given the cost-sensitive nature of misclassification, our CNN architecture is trained using a modified loss function that directly optimizes the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. We evaluated our algorithm at the 2016 PhysioNet Computing in Cardiology challenge where the objective was to accurately classify normal and abnormal heart sounds from single, short, potentially noisy recordings. Our entry to the challenge achieved a final specificity of 0.95, sensitivity of 0.73 and overall score of 0.84. We achieved the greatest specificity score out of all challenge entries and, using just a single CNN, our algorithm differed in overall score by only 0.02 compared to the top place finisher, which used an ensemble approach.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6